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TJndue stress on the verb. The Hebretvs not Anti-sabbatarian : nor Colossians. 



do enter into rest/' Whereas, the meaning evidently is, 

 hellevers (^and tliey only) shall inherit it, not liere but lier eaf ter. 

 True, Christ now gives them rest {3Iatt. xi. 28), but only 

 " rest to the soul," whereas the Apostle is speaking of the 

 Rest of the ivhole man with Grod, in the " city that hath 

 foundations, whose Builder and Maker is Grod." (cliap. xi. 10.)* 



''Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest." This 

 exhortation, W. B. T. thinks, refers exclusively to spiritual 

 rest ; " evidently (he says) not in a /uture sense." On the 

 contrary, it is precisely parallel to the exhortation (vi. 11, 12, 

 19) : ^' We desire that every one of you do show the same 

 diligence, to the full assurance of hope unto the end ; that ye 

 be not slothful, but followers of them who tlirouyh faitli and 

 patience inherit the promises.'' — " Which hojje we have as 

 an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which 

 entereth into that ivithin the vail, whither the Forerunner hath 

 for us entered, even Jesus," &c. 



Having thus shown that W. B. T. has mistaken the Apos- 

 tle's scope, it is easy to see that the argument he builds on 

 this passage to support his Sixth Proposition falls to the ground. 

 The doctrine that ''the Sabbath was merely a provisional 

 type of the G-ospel rest, fulfilled and superseded by it," finds, 

 as I said at first, no support from the Epistle to the Hebrews. 

 And if not there, where then ? We have searched for it 

 before in the Epistle to the Colossians (ii. 16, 17), and it is 

 not there. W. B. T. has affirmed that the " Epistles uniformJy 

 so regard it;" but a rigid examination, on philological and 

 logical principles, finds no such doctrine in any one. And 

 if not taught in the New Testament, of what avail is a dream 

 of the Jewish Eabbins, or a happy metaphor of JuSTiN 

 Martyr in his dialogue with Trypho the Jew, or the occa- 

 sional allegorical expositions of other later Christian divines? 

 " What is the chafi" to the wheat ? saith the Lord." Even 

 the great name of Calvin, generally the keenest of interpret- 

 ers, or of Whately, generally the shrewdest of logicians, will 



